Film Studies Daily Log

Wednesday, September 14 We held a "Socratic Seminar" using as our text Hamlet's first soliloquy, "O, that this too, too s...

Tuesday, September 13 We watched part of Hamlet, Act I, scene i, in the classic 1948 Olivier film and all of the scene in the most recent f...

Monday, September 12 Students took a quizlet over Act I, sene ii of Hamlet and the handout on Shakespeare's Language. We graded it tog...

Friday, September 9 Students received a handout discussing Shakespeare's language. We listened to two different recordings of the first ...

Thursday, September 8 Dr. P reviewed with students the unit objective of studying Hamlet as literature, theater, and film, and spoke briefly...

Wednesday, September 7 Students took a brief (five question) quiz over yesterday's handout on the history of the English language. We gr...

Tuesday, September 6 Students turned in their FEW (Frequently Encountered Words) homework, after which we (1) examined a few older English f...